The Village Labourer

1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the
Reform Bill

... The men who pay wages ought not to be the
political masters of those who earn them (because laws should be adapted to
those who have the heaviest stake in the country, for whom misgovernment means
not mortified pride or stinted luxury, but want and pain, and degradation and
risk to their own lives and to their children's souls) ...

Chapter I in the First Edition, The
Concentration of Power, was omitted from subsequent editions. It seems
that too many people were put off by the conclusions in Chapter I and
consequently the remainder of the book was called into question, labeled
unobjective, leftist, or worse.

New Edition, 1920.

This volume describes how Enclosure Awards affected life in
England. Fowler used it for his own background research; the full text book is
presented here in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.